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The Fuegians of the Jardin d'Acclimatation

Author: Leonce Manouvrier
Keywords: Leonce Manouvrier; Robert K. Stevenson; Arthur Bordier; Gustave Le Bon; Tierra del Fuego; Strait of Magellan; Fuegian; Jardin d'Acclimatation; Anthropology Society of Paris; yellow or Mongolian race; Eskimos; Redskins; American or California Indians; Quechuas of Peru; Tehuelche; Patagonians; Negroes; Botocudos; Zulus; Nubians; Bushmen; Australian aborigines; inferior or superior race; savages; Stone Age; mussels; cephalic index; facial angle; head diameter; body proportions; guanaco skin; Chile; level of intelligence or civilization; monosyllabic or polysyllabic language; Darwin; Fitzroy
Language: English
Collection: opensource

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This remarkable 1881 paper, delivered before the Anthropology Society of Paris by the brilliant young Doctor Leonce Manouvrier, constitutes the greatest 19th Century anthropological study of the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. Manouvrier provides here 50 measurements of the body that he took on 8 Fuegian adults (4 men, 4 women) and 3 children, as well as photos of three individuals. In a spirited Discussion period occurring after Manouvrier's presentation, members of the Society offer their insights on the origins and intelligence level of the Fuegians. Doctor Paul Topinard, for example, classifies the Fuegians as essentially an Eskimoid race, though "not at all a homogeneous race" nor "a physically inferior race." Meanwhile, Doctor Arthur Bordier, in asserting that "what characterizes the inferior peoples is the absence of the sense of curiosity," notes the lack of curiosity displayed by the Fuegians Manouvrier studied.

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Reviewer: gerrykuhn - - February 8, 2012
Subject: Most fascinating paper!
Seemingly endless controversy, if not mystery, surrounds the origins of the first inhabitants of North and South America. This classic 1881 work by Leonce Manouvrier comprises an early chapter to this mystery. Here we see leading scientists of the Anthropology Society of Paris contend that the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego are physically quite similar to, if not descended from, Eskimos. But, if this is the case, how did Eskimos, who inhabit the far north of North America and Greenland, manage to survive a traverse through many thousands of miles of warm and hot regions (which possess just the opposite of the very cold climate the Eskimos are adapted to) before ending up all the way at the bottom of South America? This most fascinating paper, excellently translated by Robert K. Stevenson, makes one strongly wish for more answers respecting the settlement of the Americas than Science has yet been able to provide.
-- Professor Gerald Kuhn

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